introduced the Mushroom Kingdom as the fictional world that Mario and Luigi live in, and it introduced Princess "Peach" Toadstool as a main damsel-in-distress and Mario's love interest, as well as the turtle-like Koopa King, Bowser, as the consistent series nemesis, along with many other Mario-related elements such as Super Mushrooms and Starmen as power-up items, Goombas and Piranha Plants as enemies, Princess Peach's Castle as a location, and Toad, (Known as a Mushroom Retainer in that game), another character introduced. became a worldwide hit, holding the Guinness World Record for best-selling game of all time (40 million units), cementing Nintendo as a world-renowned corporation by 1986, and single-handedly beginning a new era of video gaming that would evolve over many years to become what gaming is today. A side-scrolling platformer developed by Shigeru Miyamoto to feature far more attractive gameplay, graphical, and audio elements than any game beforehand, Super Mario Bros. for the Famicom/NES that the Mario franchise exploded into international renown. It was not until the 1985 release of Super Mario Bros. under his proper name, and he appeared again along with his newly introduced brother Luigi in the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros., battling the turtle-like Shellcreepers as also-introduced enemies.
Miyamoto came up with the game Donkey Kong, the game that would be the debut for the characters Mario (then referred to as "Jumpman" but later named Mario by Yamauchi due to Mario's comical resemblance to Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali) as the hero and the ape Donkey Kong as the enemy. The then Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi turned to the young game developer Shigeru Miyamoto and entrusted him with the development of a new game, which would be built from units of the Radar Scope game. Nintendo had an arcade game called Radar Scope that was successful in Japan but not very much so in the United States. 3 Media with elements appearing in the Super Smash Flash series.The Mario universe is so expansive, in fact, that the last three characters are considered stars of their own sub-universes: the Yoshi universe, the Donkey Kong universe, and the Wario universe. Directly as a result from this, there are more Mario-themed characters, items, and properties to be found in the Super Smash Flash series than any other Nintendo franchise, not the least of which are eight distinctive playable characters: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Waluigi, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and Wario. Mario himself is Nintendo's mascot and is considered the most well-known video game character in the world, and he and his many friends and nemesis have appeared in dozens-upon-dozens of Nintendo video games, many of them best-sellers and several of which are considered some of the greatest games ever released. The Mario universe is Nintendo's most lucrative franchise, and it is flat-out the most successful game franchise in global sales and in history. The Mario ( マリオ) universe refers to the Super Smash Flash series' collection of characters, stages, items, and properties that hail from Nintendo's expansive and hugely successful Mario video game franchise.
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